Railway-tie and fastener.



PATBNTED MAY '7, 1907.

No. 852542- y F. M. GROSSLEY. A'

RAILWAY TIEAND PASTENEB..

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7, 1906.

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FRANCIS M. CROSSLEY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

RAILWAY-TIE AND FASTENER. i

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May '7, 1907.

Application filed November 7,1906. Serial No. 342,338.

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Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. CRossLnY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Railway-Ties and Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in railway ties and more especially to metal ties for use upon road beds formed of dirt, cinders etc., which are yielding and require a tie having an extended contact surface.

The objects of this invention are to provide such a tie with means for engaging the bed to prevent lateral or endwise creeping when in use under heavy loads or under lateral pressure at curves, and also to construct the tie so as to especially adapt the rail fastener shown in applicants Letters Patent dated Jan. 2, 1906, No. 808904, to be used in conjunction therewith and also to permit the use of other forms of rail clamps.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a novel clamp or rail fastening especially adapted for use under certain conditions and to provide certain new and useful features in the construction of the parts, all as hereinafter more fully described, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a tie embodying the invention with railway rails secured in place thereon, one rail being shown as held by my patented clamp or fastener and the other by my new form of clamp; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 an inverted plan view; Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse section on the line :r1-:1; of Fig. 3 Fig. 5, a similar view on the line @/-y; and Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail showing in plan view a modified form of tie with a rail secured in place thereon by my new rail clamp.

As shown in the drawing 1, 1 represent the railway rails and 2 a tie formed of cast metal and consisting of a rectangular plate or top 3 of the necessary length and of a width to give a good bearing on the surface of the road bed. The upper surface of this plate is smooth and flat but projecting downward from its lower surface is a series of longitr dinal ribs 4, preferably three in numb er, and a seri es of transverse ribs 5, which ribs form upon the lower srrface rectangular pockets 6 to receive the dirt of the road bed and hold more firmly 1 thereto, thus preventing creeping. The transverse ribs are preferably tapered at their ends from the outside longitudinal ribs outward to the edges of the top plate, as are also the longitudinal ribs at their ends. These ribs not only serve to engage the road bed but also to strengthen the plate and thus a very strong yet light construction is secured.

Formed on the top plate near each end and extending longitudinally thereof in each direction from each rail, are parallel slots 7 the ends farthest from the adjacent rail of each pair being connected by a transverse slot 8 and thus forming bars or tongues 9 extending along the longitudinal center line of the tie and connected thereto at one end only, which adjacent ends of each pair of tongues extend beneath one of the rails when in place on the tie.

A downwardly projecting rib 10 of greater depth than the ribs 4L extends along the longitudinal center line of these tongues, forming the same into E'-bars adapted to be engaged by clamping or fastening members 11 similar to those shown in my Letters Patent Abefore mentioned and consisting of a loop or clamp member 1,2 formed with a T- slot to receive the T-bar and having a projecting lip 13 to engage the flange of the rail and a set screw 14 to clamp the lip against the fiange. These clamps are engaged with the T-bars by inserting said clamps in the transverse portions 8 of the slots.

In certain instances, as in replacing a broken clamp or laying new rails without taking up' the tie, it may be inconvenient to use the clamp 11 as it would be difficult to put them in place while theI tie was embedded in the ground, and I have therefore provided a clamp 15 which consists of a block 16 having a laterally extending lip 17 to engage the flange of the rail and provided with a vertical hole for a clamping bolt or hook 18. This hook consists of a round rod which is bent into the form of a hook at its lower end and screw-threaded at its upper end to reeeive a nut 19 which when the clamp is in place, lies within a recess in the upper side of the block. In placing the clamp, the hook is turned to extend longitudinally of one of the slots 7 and inserted therethrough, then turned laterally to engage the hook with one of the ribs on the tie. The block is then placed with its lip engaging the rail iiange and the screw-threaded end of the hook ex- IOO IIO

The slots are all of such a length as to per-- mit of the use of dil'erent Widths 'of rail and of the necessary adjustment, laterally, of the rail which by the use of these forms of clamps and tie .may be quickly and leasily attached or detached.

I-Iaving thus fully described my invention what I claim is 41. A tie consisting of a top rectangular plate portion which is smooth and ilat on its upper side and provided with openings near each end, a series of longitudinally and downwardly extending ribs on the flower Vside of -said 'slots7 transverse ri-bs on the lower side of the plate forming with the other ribs, pockets on the 4lower lside of the tie, and meansgexten'ding thro-ughgtlreslots rand engaging the adjacent ribs to secure the rail to the tie.

3. A tie consisting of a rectangular plate formed with two pairs of oppositely extending longitudinal slots near each end and one end of each pair connected by a transverse slot to form tongues in the plate integral therewith at one end, longitudinal and transverse ribs extending downward from the lower side of said plate and forming pockets, a rib of greater width than the other ribs extending longitudinally along the center of each tongue and forming 'therewith a Tahar, and means adapted to embrace the `T-l ars to secure the rails to the tie.

4. A tie consisting of a rectangular plate having a flat upper surface and formed with two pairs of 'oppositely extending longitudinal slots near each end and one end of each pair connected by a transverse slotto form tongues in the plate integral therewith at the adjacent ends of said tongues, a series of longitudinal ri-hs extending downward .from the lower side of the plate, a series of similar ribs extending transversely of the plate and tapered at each end from the outer longitudinal ribs to the ledges ofthe plate, said ribs together forming rectangular pockets over the lower surface of the tie, hooks adapted to be inserted through the slots and engaged with the ribs, blo'ckshaving lips to engage the ilange vof a rail and provided with openings for the hooks and recesses in their opposite side, and nuts on the hooks within the recesses.

In Vtestimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS M. CROSSLEY. Witnesses:

OTTO F. BARTHEL, CHARLES B. SHUMWAY. 

